good morning, everyone. welcome to week skwrepb"weekend wit witt". investigators in los angeles are trying to figure out why a 23-year-old, who friends say showed no signs of problems, strolled into lax yesterday and started shooting. one tsa agent is dead. five hurt in a scene of total panic caught on video by this report by tmz. so word from the hospital on his condition. along with the rifle, he was carrying 150 round of ammunition, as well as a note that said he wanted to kill tsa employ and "pigs." no words can explain the horror that we experienced today when a shooter took the life of a member of our family and injured two tsa officers. i received a call not long ago from president obama who not only shared with me his cole

doll lenses. it could have been much worse if agents on the scene weren't well prepared for emergency situations. >> not more than three weeks ago we took every one of our officers, patrol officers and a couple hundred officers from the los angeles police department and we practiced the exact scenario that played out today. >> in just a few minutes, we'll have a live report from los angeles and new details about the suspected shooter. but first to politics. new this morning, president obama sending this message to both parties in congress. work together to pass a budget. >> here's the bottom line. congress should pass a budget that cuts things we don't need and closes tax loopholes that don't help create jobs so we can free up resources for the things that do create jobs and growth. building new roads. building new bridges and schools and airports.

that creates jobs. >> too many americans still cannot even access the online exchanges and for the few that have, they are experiencing sticker shock. the president told us that obama care is more than a website. i agree. it is more than just a website, and the problems run far deeper than a few technological glitches. >> the white house released a progress report on the website fix saying it is improving with users waiting less than a second for wages to load, compared to eight. they are work to go improve application process. wanda summers and ed o'keefe. good morning to you both. thanks for joining me. >> good to see you, alex. >> as the the house and senate negotiators met on tuesday, they are just waiting to reach a deal

and we reach the debt ceiling february 7th. will it turn into another 11th hour fight? or might we get something done until we all talk about it minute by minute. >> it is congress. so the 11th hour seems to be when most things get done. what we have heard this week is this is not going to explode into some kind of a grand bargain as perhaps the white house. now, there's hope, it is likely this will be a piecemeal fix to avoid this, to perhaps deal with the across the board sequester cuts. not a lot of optimism. this will be a quick and painless process. >> okay. ed, i was looking at your recent article. you write house and senate negotiators hope to strike a deal on a new farm bill. you say if no deal is reach the price of milk could double. what are the sticking points here? >> it's this funky thing, if they don't pass a farm bill, it

reverts back to something that was passed in 1949. it would cause the price of milk to spike. whether or not that happens remains to be scene. most people on the hill believe it was bigger budget negotiation and deal that has to get passed by mid-january. not only are dairy prices at risk. a lot of people lost food stamp money this week. it's not necessarily going to get replaced. it shows the kind of things that are falling by the wayside as congress sits around and is unable to make a deal. >> speaking of food stamps is, part of the budget snaps the s.n.a.p. program, the one that provide the stamps is. yesterday $5 billion in cuts took effect. that's $36 less per month for recipien recipients. what is behind these cuts, lana? >> this is from a temporary program to 2009 and the stimulus.

will there be further cuts? as you noted, over $47 million. that's one in seven people. directors of food banks say if further cuts come down they would have to at least double the amount of out put in order to feed needy families struggling to make ends meet. >> few more numbers to go through, ed. 87% of food stamp recipients are in homes with kids, seniors or disabled. 900,000 veterans rely on food stamps. for every dollar in s.n.a.p. spending, $1.70 is generated for the community. and they want to cut $30 million from this program? >> it's unlikely the number will be that high. remember, the senate passed a version of events that would only cut $4 billion. house republicans would cut $39

billion. they have to find a middle. this would be the big sticking point as they continue talking about it. farm bill, why does it have anything to do with food stamps. but they are put together in order to get them out of business. it's been delayed two years. both sides are sticking to their proposed cuts. so at some point hopefully in the next few weeks they will try to figure out a way to meet in the middle. 40 billion, 4 billion. maybe 22 billion. probably not. that will be the big sticking point as to whether to get something done. it's just a spending thing. the government is spending too much. >> the obama care, how is this playing out, juana? >> kathleen sebelius testifying on capitol hill about rollouts,

problems. i look forward to seeing just how have they press it. more congressional hearings certainly to come. a lot of theory on this straight ahead. >> i was up in pennsylvania yesterday with matt cartwright talking to voters about it. he shared a lot of information and honesty with them. it seemed to work. fewer showed up who said, i learned a few things i may not like the law but i appreciate that he showed up and explained some is things. maybe it shows public support at least in those areas of the countriment they will spend the week attack it as well. >> we had a pretty lengthy conversation as well. so i agree. juana and ed, thanks so much. >> take care. frightening video shot by tmz. authorities say a gunman opened fire at a security checkpoint.

miguel almagare has the latest. >> we know the suspect has been identified as 23-year-old paul ciancia. he entered inside terminal 3 behind me and opened fire, killing a tsa agent, injuring at least seven others, before he himself was shot and taken into custody. this all happened very early friday morning during the middle of the morning commute. it was 9:30 a.m. the terminal was packed with passengers. police say he walked in, pulled a high-powered rifle out of a bag, shot at tsa agents, killing one, then moved past security. police followed him down the terminal where he made his way 100 yards down the terminal, past security where they engaged him in a gun battle. passengers were running,

screaming, hiding in bathrooms, running out to the tarmac, doing what they could to save their own lives. here's what one passenger told us yesterday. >> i wasn't sure what was happening. i thought it might have been a bomb scare. i saw a man walking around with a shotgun. initially i thought, okay, this is an undercover policeman pause he was walking pretty cautiously. didn't seem like he was in any particular hurry. then it became clear what it was and i quickly picked up my bag and ran out. >> the airport was locked down several hours. 167,000 passengers were impacted by flight delays and cancellations. lax, as you know, is the third busiest airport in the country, alex. things are slowly returning back to normal. terminal 3 remains shut down. the suspect is in custody, alex.

>> thank you for that angle of things. we'll have more coming up. see you again. thanks. in the wake of the lax shooting should all tsa officers be armed? i will read some of your tweets throughout the day. residents in central texas are cleaning up after heavy rains and flooding. the storm claimed the lives of four people. meteorologist dylan dreyer is here with the forecast. >> that cold front that brought all the rain to parts of texas and eventually up and down the east coast is dragging in temperatures. 38 in minneapolis. only going to top out around 48 degrees. look at the east coast. we should be in the mid to upper 60s. it's balmy this morning. temperatures start fall. by sunday, highs in boston, 48 degrees. 48 for a high in new york city for the marathon. 54 in washington. 64 in denver. temperatures will be a little

bit below average. look at what happens in boston. from 63 to 48 tomorrow. and then we stay in the 40s as we start off the workweek. wednesday, we should get back into the 50s. now that it is november we are going to see things cooling down quite a bit. unsettled in the northwest and the great lakes region. the cold front is finally moving out of here. but a closer look shows you some of the heavier rain moving through detroit. mostly sunny skies across a good part of the country. except for the northwest and the great lakes recently. isolated thunderstorms still possible through northern florida. tomorrow it clears out even more. entire eastern two-thirds of the country will see a lot of sunshine. some of that snow work into the mountain ranges. we'll see some showers is. for the most part, tomorrow looks fairly quiet. it is going to be much, much colder than it will be across the country today. >> it is sweater weather. thank you, dylan.

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you'll see it's less than half it was in 2009. why? well, a pull back in stimulus packages. of course sequestration, across the board budget cuts. and taxes on the top 1%. and also if you go back to 2008 and that housing crisis, fanny and freddie mac and the government bailout have started to pay the government back. that's reflected in the figure. >> auto sales. how did they fair last month given the government shutdown. >> it did have an effect. the back half was quite successful. particularly with trucks. you see one truck ad after another. full 60 seconds, very brand specific. the average transaction price for a full size truck is $39,000. they are more fuel efficient, quite luxurious. and brand advertising.

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joe biden for hillary clinton for vp. and romney campaign had concerns about chris christie. the book is called "double down." it has everyone talking. the host of msnbc's "hardball". chris matthews joins me now. hi, chris. good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> first let's go to mitt romney. he passed over chris christie because his background was littered with landmines. truth there? >> i don't know. i read that part of the book. it's a lot of stuff. a lot of stuff. including the charge that he went too big on his expense account as u.s. attorney. he was staying at the four seasons. if you put it horizontally, problems with his brother. what it will do is create opportunities for anyone who runs against him to begin there. that will be their first draft of their investigation of the guy. but i didn't see anything there

that made it troubling about him being president of the united states or vice president. not yet. >> what about the vice presidential campaign search called project goldfish. tim pawlenty, they called him goldfish. marco rubio, pescado, which is fish in spanish. paul ryan, fishconsin. and puffer fish. >> that's making fun of his girth. he's overweight. that's not funny. he is what he is. perhaps flaws if you're a westerner. but most east coast people know people like chris christie and like him. he's very much a man of his region. to me he's philadelphia, south jersey. wise guy attitude. we like people with attitude.

generally they show themselves to be real about people like pawlenty and people who don't see it as fully animated. you know what i mean? >> yeah, yeah. totally. i want to say chris christie is taking steps to reduce his weight and get healthier. >> a lot of people are. by the way, who is too skinny and who is too fat? if he can handle himself in terms of psychology obviously, he's better off losing weight. you don't live that long if you stay that fat. that's just a fact. >> obama a care website. it came -- >> can i say something? i've been dying to say this. >> yes. >> all this stuff about biden and how they were going to dump him, i don't believe it. it would have made the president look so desperate. to drop his friend because he was worried about reelection. no real reason to do it

otherwise. clinton he's been at war with. making himself a moment from the nomination on. it doesn't make any sense. >> is does this make sense? he said, look, the fact is that you -- it's like playing war games. you play political games. you put out the they'reeos. is that all this was. what would the matchup like if it were to be obama/clinton. >> see, i don't know if it happened. first of all, the idea of running focus groups and running posts cost money. i don't know whether daly was involved in the campaign. all the people in the campaign who spend money on these focus groups say they have nothing to do with it. i don't know where this polling was done. you throw in that thing for me. would you throw in the question about this for me. maybe in a focus group. but the formal pain structures denied ever doing this. the big news is that joe biden is running for president and has been since 2011. and joe biden will be running

for president and will certainly have decided to run long before hillary clinton makes any public or private indication of whether she's running or not. we're looking at a real collision. biden will be in the race. he'll be clearly in the race. hillary won't have made her move yet. so they may well go into a collision. i don't know how biden pulls out before hillary goes in. they had breakfast recently. she's not going to give him a heads-up. so he's going to run. she's going to announce she's running. we're going to have a mccarthy/bobby kennedy situation well before 2016. that's the big news in the book to me. biden is running. >> and if that happens, what does that look like? aside from bobby kennedy/gene mccarthy. >> biden will have to take the risk of getting clobbered by her. but he can't pull out of the race once he goes in. >> but, chris, if he is hearing

you say that and other people are saying that with the strength is of hillary -- >> i think he ought to run. he's been running for president his whole life. why pull out of any kind of campaign? he should get into this thing. that's what i think. by the way, it's not what i think. i'm an observer. i think he's in the race for president. every indication. he's been back to pennsylvania so often. he knows delaware is not a big enough base. any time he does anything, he's clearly working his strengths as vice president. hillary doesn't have those. she's fading in the polls right now. hillary is out of office. between now and a year from now, i think hillary would beat him. that doesn't mean he should run right up until then and perhaps persist. what's so wrong about a competition for the nomination next time? it would probably help hillary to have a good fight with biden.

it would probably help. you have to be in it, in it, in it. you don't just is jump right back into it. you have to be in the game, in the moment. the only way to get into the moment, is to get back into the moment in real-time. she would benefit from an early sparring partner in 2016. i think the dynamics are there. biden can't know whether is she's running or not. i don't think he will stop his presidential ambitions on the possibility that she is running. he will have to decide before she does. that's going to be fun to watch. great stuff for us. >> it will be. nick is having a fit in the control room because this show is not called "hardball". see you. thanks so much. >> thanks, alex. >> coming up, the one big factor. the debate in obama care. max and penny kept our bookstore

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welcome back to "weekends with alex witt". black to the investigation on the fatal shooting at lax. investigators in l.a. and injure injure are trying to understand what led the 23-year-old to go on the shooting rampage. pete williams is in our washington bureau. pete, good morning. what is your gleaning in terms of the weapons, the ammunition. >> first of all, in terms of his condition, they were saying yesterday he was shot in the chest and that he was in critical condition. we have not many heard of an update of his condition at this point. he had what they described as an assault-type rifle, like an ar-15. he had over 100 yard in five magazines. it could be as many as 150 rounds of ammunition that he

took with him to the airport. he's 23. originally from new jersey. they say he had at least a page of radical anti-government material, a diatribe against the federal government in particular, and tsa in particular. calling tsa employees "pigs" and say they were violating his civil rights. police in pennsville, new jersey said he sent his brother a text message early friday in which he said he was not going to be alive much longer. police have questioned members of his family in new jersey. ciancia's father said he talked to his son last week, who complained about the state of the economy. he did not have a job. he's been living in los angeles for about a year. he got his driver's license nine months ago. boat state and local officials say they have no trouble from paul ciancia.

they're at a loss to explain why a 23-year-old who apparently didn't fly much would be so angry at the tsa, alex. >> is this going to change tsa policy? it's my understanding the agents are not armed. >> they're not armed. we haven't heard from tsa about that. i doubt that it will. in most airports there are armed tsa. they come in close contact with members of the public. they don't want to have that image of somebody who is scary and potentially a threat. they don't have that kind of training as well. they've obviously been aware of this threat from the beginning. but i heard no discussion that they should change the training

or they are considering it. >> lax terminal 3 is still closed. >> correct. >> do we know how long it will be closed for? >> no, we don't. i don't expect it will be closed long. they are still trying to piece together exactly what happened, where the shots were fired and so on. but i wouldn't think it would take that much longer. >> tough for me. that is my gateway for which i go home to l.a. just thinking about it. >> yeah. >> pete williams, thank you so much. >> okay. >> in this week's office politics, co anchor of squawk on the street. i began by asking carl about the affordable care act and who stands to make money from it. >> blue cross, cigna, united health, they stand to make some money. the stock reflects it this year. there's so much we don't know,

about this program, whether it will be good or bad. we're not going to know the answers to those questions for years. even though there's a lot of political turmoil, it's going to be a long ride. and the president's challenge is trying to get people used to that idea. getting them patient enough to wait until with we know whether this thing is working or not. >> what about wall street's reaction to this and all the upheaval in the website. is that all baked in at this point? >> market has been at record highs. october the best month in two years of any month. the market is focused on other things. yeah, there's a lot of uncertainty about health care, about the debt limit, the shutdown. >> how much of that affected our economy? >> the economy? probably some. >> yeah. >> the market? hardly any at all. that's just a reflection of where we are right now. the federal reserve has sort of

made these rules where people are piling into stocks. they are trying to get interest on their cash. so the market and the economy are like two different things right now. people say i don't understand. markets are at record highs. trying to explain that imbalance is one of the most challenging things we have to do. >> the debt ceiling threat, as that looms yet again, february 7th, is that something that you worry about that maybe the second time around on the heels, only a quarter plus later? >> two things. one, unlikely republicans will use the tool as a shutdown again. is that good news? you could argue yes. there are a lot of people who wish we would default, wish we would default, take the pain. if you and i were running up debt, eventually we would miss a bill. >> sure. there's a lot of people who argue the united states needs to go through that exercise.

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republicans pushing for even deeper cuts for the s.n.a.p. program. their fight to keep food on the family table already agonizing. >> it's really hard. no, you can't have that food item. or you can't have that necessity for living. because i don't have the money to buy it for you. rhode island congressman david cissilini. as a mom, that hurts. i have to tell you, i'm feeling that woman's pain. your republican counterparts in the cuts, $49 # billion over the next decade. what kind of fight are you prepared to wage over this? >> we are intending to fight very hard. that's an example what is happening to millions and millions of americans who rely on the snap program for their

family and food security. it will have a real impact on their lives. in addition to the exploration that led to these cuts, my friends on the or side are proposing an additional $40 billion over the next decade. this will hurt millions of children, millions of working families. the vast majority of people who use snap as nutritionist assistance to subpoenament their food purchases are working families. they are really living on the edge. this is some of your seniors, veterans with disabilities. the working poor. we have got to protect this program. it's a way of ensuring that we begin to respond to the issue of hunger in this country, not make it worse. there is no reason in the richest, most powerful cut we should go hungry. we have to fight against these cuts with every fiber of our

body. >> are there programs to offset the cuts to snap, though? >> this is our principal food assistance program. people relied on it for a very long time. it was always part of a farm bill where agricultural subsidies were provided. at the same time, we ensured people would not go hungry. the real tragedy is the republican proposal that came out of the house. they made the farm subsidies more generous at the same time they cut $40 billion in the snap program. you know, this is money that helps stimulate the economy in addition to feeding people. folks to the floor the ability to hold on to this. they spend it right away to support themselves and their families and their daily nutrition. it goes right back into the economy. supporting grocery stores, be neighborhood stores. it has a multiplier effect. it's good economics, good public policy. most importantly, it's the right thing to do. that example of that woman describing, to tell her kids you

don't have that. >> yeah. >> you can't eat that. it is something that should not happen in this country. >> okay. the administration said it would get off to a slow start. these numbers almost unbelievable. on launch day, only six people signed up. that matched the number of the snl parody last weekend when they said six people signed up for the first day. that was like truth, right? 248 people enroll. should we expect a drastic turnaround this month? or is it going to be a constant uphill battle? >> i think we will see real change. number one, we have to remember you are not -- coverage doesn't begin until skwral 1st. january 1st. once you enroll you have to have pay. lots and lots of people will do this toward the middle of december because that's the time that you actually have to make the payment. very few people will sign up and make a payment two months ahead of time. that's number one. number two, clearly there have been problems with the website.

problems with entering the system. we've been fortunate here in rhode island. there's a lot of good work of lieutenant governor and ferguson. we have lots of good work happening here and lots of good resul results. that's not the case in every state. the president has acknowledged there's a lot of work to do. the website has to be fixed when people start to receive the benefits of enrolling, things you have heard about before, closing the hole for seniors. eliminating lifetime caps. making sure people with preex t pre-existing conditions have benefits. people are going into the marketplace and seeing premiums come down. because there's competition. if you remember part d, there were all kinds of problems with with people enrolling. it was very slow in the beginning. it's a beloved program.

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>> as the 50 year anniversary of jfk's assassination is later this month, secret around the investigation and if you details of lee harvey oswald and questions raised of what the government new, all laid out in "a cruel and shocking act, the secret history of the john f. kennedy assassination." looking through this book it has

alleged coverup, the fbi, as well as the commission that investigated kennedy's assassination. overall, what shocked you the most in your research? >> i think a big theme in my book is how much basic evidence of oswald was destroyed and it was destroyed within hours of the president's death. you know, the night after the president died the navy pathologist who carried out the auchs was pushing the original autopsy report and all of his notes from the morgue into his home fireplace and that's just the start. >> okay. why would that be done? well, he said when he got home if night after the autopsy, the night after the assassination, he noticed that all of his notes and the original autopsy report were sustained with the president's blood and he didn't want those documents turned into only grizzly souvenir in a museum some day. he thought he'd destroy them. when the warren commission found out about that, they thought it

would give to conspiracy theories. >> zubruder, how critical was that to the investigation? >> it was essential. it served sort of as a clock for the assassination. they were able to match that up with the ballistics evidence and come to some conclusions that led to the zegs that oswald was the lone gunman. >> talk about lee harvey oswald and what all you uncovered there. >> well, there is this whole missing chapter of the story of the kennedy assassination is what in the heck was lee harvey oswald doing in mexico city a few weeks before the assassination. i went into this not knowing about the mexico trip. he was meeting with cuban spies and russian spies and other people who may have had a reason to see president kennedy dead. >> was he doing that, do you think, knowing who they were? things i read about his life in

minsk it's almost as if he was played by the russians. they thought he had issues. they didn't want to have some american lose it in their country. it would bad pr. >> well, i mean, i certainly heard that theory offered. it certainly is clear when he went to mexico, he was getting the paper to defect to cube what and at one time defect to russia. the story about lee harvey oswald, it appears he was never happy where he was. >> countless books, movies, documentaries on the life and murder of our 3 5g9 president. the revelations in this book, how do they remain secret until now? >> well, i think a lot of serious journalists have wanted to stay away from this estimate as the mess, a morass of conflicting testimonies. there are these armies of conpier is rifts to be dealt

with. so much evidence about the assassination has been declassified in the last couple decades. >> that material was not available to the original authors. >> philip, do you find there are still stones to be unturned? >> absolutely. there are still documents that are classified at the national archives about this and there are still people alive in mexico city who were never questioned by the fbi or cia about their encounters with oswald 50 years ago. >> were these stones to be unturned? what do you think the ultmalt result is? will it do away with conspiracy theorists or prove something more sinister? >> the question for me was is, was os waultd encouraged to do what he did or did he tell people what he was going to do? there is an amazing document in the middle of the warren commission investigation in which hoover reveals that oswald marched into apparently the cuban embassy in mexico city and

denounced he was going to kill president kennedy, which means people knew weeks in advance that oswald was talking about this that document never appears to have reached investigators on the warren commission who needed it. >> extraordinarily. thank you for joining us. that's a wrap of this hour. join me for a two-hour addition at noon. straight ahead, smart political talk with "up" with steve kornacki here on msnbc. so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, whe experts watch over all drilling activity twenty-four-seven. and we're sharing what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger.

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